Migrate from Prisma to Drizzle ORM
140 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 117 repos, say they move a project from Prisma to Drizzle ORM. 27 go the other way. Real code changes by developers in general, not only makers — read from the titles, so a PR is counted when its title says "Prisma to Drizzle ORM".
When they moved
Pull requests a month. Most are recent: 110 in the last 13 months against 30 before. The busiest month was Jul 2026 (14).
The newest 20 pull requests
- feat(db): migrate ORM from Prisma 7 to Drizzle (zero DDL, behavior parity)laststance/corelive · 2026-09-29
- Migrate from Prisma to Drizzle for schema-per-tenant supportadeel-boson/UPresent · 2026-09-27
- Refactor/prisma to drizzleAmruthaarunachalam/next.js-backend · 2026-09-24
- test(e2e): benchmark and verify the Prisma to Drizzle migration (ENG-2137)Shamiri-Institute/digitalhub · 2026-09-22
- refactor(db): migrate from prisma to drizzle ormcs-esmaeili/lio_back · 2026-09-20
- Migrate jetstream.spec.ts's direct Board query from Prisma to Drizzlemkizka/linkat · 2026-09-19
- feat: migrate from Prisma to Drizzle v1 RC3exKAZUu-Research/trace-dojo · 2026-09-11
- Pr2/prisma to drizzle api jobsusemarble/marble · 2026-09-11
- feat(error-tracker)!: port @context-kit/error-tracker from Prisma to Drizzlequeso/context-kit-packages · 2026-09-11
- switch from the prisma to the drizzle ORMvirtualabishek/24hoursnews · 2026-09-10
- feat(auth)!: port @context-kit/auth from Prisma to Drizzle (0.2.0)queso/context-kit-packages · 2026-09-10
- Migrate from Prisma to Drizzle v1 and add Playwright E2E testsjfranciscosousa/shopping-list · 2026-08-29
- feat(breaking-change): Migrate our ORM from Prisma to Drizzleviet-aus-it/vait-discord-bot · 2026-08-27
- Migrate session and data store from Prisma to Drizzleakhiakl/shopify-store-bridge · 2026-08-23
- refactor(storebridge): migrate session/data store from Prisma to Drizzleakhiakl/shopify-store-bridge · 2026-08-23
- feat(database): migrate control-plane SQLite from Prisma to Drizzlemohammedzamakhan/epic-startup · 2026-08-20
- Move from Prisma to Drizzle, baselining the existing tablesnewtheatre/rooms · 2026-08-18
- migrated from prisma to Drizzle orm , and migrated from old schema to…sumitBoraSG/backendBuddyAssignment · 2026-08-18
- Upgrade deps, migrate Prisma to Drizzle, and replace Clerk with Better Authitsnyein/pingX · 2026-08-11
- refactor(db): ⚡ migrate database layer from Prisma to Drizzle ORMjackmaders/watchpoint-archive · 2026-08-07
Prisma and Drizzle ORM, side by side
Among makers' products we track for database access & ORMs: Prisma 37, Drizzle ORM 11.
Where else Prisma projects go
Kysely10 PRs
Where else Drizzle ORM's newcomers come from
- Kysely6 PRs
Questions
How many projects have moved from Prisma to Drizzle ORM?
140 public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024, in 117 repos, have a title saying they move from Prisma to Drizzle ORM.
Do projects move back from Drizzle ORM to Prisma?
Yes: 27 pull requests over the same time go from Drizzle ORM to Prisma, against 140 from Prisma to Drizzle ORM.
GitHub search, Oct 2026 (as of 2026-10-02).